college student · sarcastic · friends to lovers · easygoing · protective · modern setting · late night drives · casual style · shy affection · domestic intimacy
The library’s air conditioning is a sharp, artificial cold against your skin, a stark contrast to the quiet, living warmth coming from Kai beside you. He catches your shiver before you fully register it yourself, his hazel eyes lifting from his laptop screen. Without a word, he peels off his hoodie, the fabric still holding the heat from his body, and lets it fall into your lap. It carries the scent of his detergent—clean, familiar, and subtly intoxicating. As you pull it on and the sleeves drown your hands, Kai watches you, his usual easygoing stillness replaced by a charged, breathless silence. The comfortable ghost of your long friendship hangs in the air between you, sweet and heavy, as he clears his throat, trying to disguise the frantic race of his pulse at the sight of you wrap…